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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The Pentagon says a U.S. service member died last night from injuries received during Iran's initial attacks in the Middle East. This is the seventh U.S. death of the war. Israel has attacked a civilian oil facility in Iran for the first time in the war. Since the war began, the price of gasoline has soared, and oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Michael Waltz, says today the U.S. military is ready to help.
Our Navy is prepared to start escorting if necessary. Pipelines, new pipelines are coming online that will move some of the oil and gas around the Straits of Hormuz. But this is precisely the problem. Iran has been threatening to do this, holding the regime hostage for many, many decades, and we are now eliminating their ability to do so.
He was interviewed on ABC's This Week.
What recent developments have occurred in the Middle East conflict?
In Israel, public opinion polls show high support for the Iran war. But a small group of demonstrators protested the war in Tel Aviv yesterday until the police broke it up. NPR's Daniel Estrin was there.
The spokesperson of the police is pushing me away. He doesn't want to speak. Police just announced that in two minutes they're going to be breaking up this protest. They say it is an illegal protest. The policeman on the loudspeaker just said, we do not want any kind of unnecessary provocations. This is an anti-war protest. There are only maybe 50, maybe 100 people here. Not a large protest at all. What's your name? Ron Ginton. This war has no concrete and realistic purposes. I do not trust Netanyahu and his government. Now I see a crowd of people running. The square has been dispersed and is empty. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
President Trump says he won't sign any bills into law until Congress passes the Save America Act, which requires proof of citizenship for voter registration. NPR's Luke Garrett has more on the story.
In a social media post Sunday, Trump pushed the GOP-controlled Senate. To skirt its 60-vote threshold to move most legislation, it's a requirement that necessitates some Democratic buy-in. He wants Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota to sidestep Democratic opposition to pass the Save America Act by simple majority. The bill would require voter identification and proof of citizenship for voting. Most states already require some form of ID. But Thune has said setting aside this 60-vote threshold doesn't have support in the GOP conference. Trump has long railed baselessly against corrupt U.S. elections. Voter fraud in the U.S. is extremely rare and states run elections. In 2020, Trump attempted to overturn his election loss.
Courts rejected every effort to challenge the results. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR News in Washington. Voting rights supporters are marking Bloody Sunday, the day in 1965 when Alabama state troopers beat civil rights marchers on a bridge in Selma. Natasha Harris runs a print shop in downtown Selma. She says it's important to remember.
My husband's family is rooted here in Selma. And so his dad was actually one of the people who crossed the bridge. So it's near and dear to our hearts. And we do shirts commemorating the bridge crossing for the last, I don't know, 10, 15 years.
The violence on the bridge horrified the nation and energized the civil rights movement. Daylight saving time started today and lasts for eight months. One Canadian province is making it permanent. NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports.
The change means darker mornings and brighter evenings throughout the year in British Columbia. Public health researchers say daylight saving time is linked to more car accidents, more strokes, heart attacks and obesity cases each year. Because a later start to the day means more people waking up in the dark and going to bed later, which affects our biological clocks,
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